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Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, [nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in Greater Houston and Southeast ...
Harvey officially made landfall at 03:00 UTC on August 26 on the northern end of San José Island, 6 mi (9.7 km) east of Rockport, Texas, at its peak strength. [2] This made Harvey the first storm to strike the United States at Category 3 intensity or higher since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. [33]
Early on August 26, Harvey made landfall in San José Island, Texas at peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph and a pressure of 937 mb. A couple of hours Harvey made another landfall in Holiday Beach as a slightly weaker high-end Category 3 storm. After that, Harvey rapidly weakened and stalled for multiple days over ...
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas. According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years. On any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline, a ...
It was the first Category 5 storm to make landfall on mainland U.S. since Andrew 26 years earlier. Mary Battles, left, and Shenike Bishop rest in a bus stop damaged by Hurricane Michael on Oct. 20 ...
Concern that Harvey could cause shortages in fuel supply drove benchmark gasoline prices to a three-week high. Gas prices spike as Hurricane Harvey readies to make landfall Skip to main content
Harvey was the first major hurricane to strike the United States since Hurricane Wilma on October 24, 2005—a record 4,323-day span [85] —and the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the United States since Charley in 2004, as well as the first Category 4 to make landfall in Texas since Carla in 1961. [86]
Hurricane Harvey, which flooded Houston and the surrounding region in 2017, killed 103. Deaths have been reported by officials in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.